BA’ALMORAL to BIOTHANATOCRACY
A CAUTIONARY NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
Do not read the following if you are either eagerly or egregiously offended by forthright observation, free expression, honest wit or harmless word-play.
[NB key roots: archy, cracy (“rule, government, power”) / arch, crat (“ruler”)]
BA’ALMORAL ● palatial abode of demon-kings; a reptile house for royalty [Ba’al + Balmoral]
BALLISTOPOTENT ● not lacking in ICBM firepower, nor geopolitical clout; missile-mighty [ballisto (“projectile”) + potent]
BAME-OCRACY ● western democracy as subverted by racial grievance racketeers [Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic (abbrev) + democracy]
BANKONOMICS ● an economic praxis privileging the profits of the banks and other financial institutions [bank + economics]
BANKRUPTION ● disruption to, collapse of—or corruption within—the banking system [bank + ruption]
BANKSTERDOM ● the criminal banker fraternity [bank + gangsterdom]
BAN-SHE ● a radical feminist feared for getting political opponents banned, or “cancelled” [banshee]
BANTUSTANDARD ● bog-standard or shit-typical as sub-Saharan states or homelands go [Bantustan (“homeland”) + standard]
BARBARARCHY ● barbarian overlordship; under the heel of the Hun [barbarian + archy]
BARBARITARIANISM ● the politics of savage cruelty [barbarian + authoritarianism]
BARBISTOCRACY ● weirdy-beardy gentlemen hipsters—a social set of some distinction [barb + aristocracy]
BAROCRACY ● court or legal bureaucracy—paperwork, procedures, protocols [bar + bureaucracy]
BARRISTOCRACY ● the ranks of King’s Counsel [barrister + aristocracy]
BARYARCHY ● a burdensome state, being an oppressive load on civil society; onerous rule [bary (“weighty”) + archy]
BARYCOMMUNISM ● hardline, heavily repressive communism; “barracks communism” [bary (“weighty”) + communism]
BASSOCRACY ● the deep state #1 [bass (“low”) + cracy]
BATHYARCHY ● the deep state #2 [bathy (“deep”) + archy]
BATHYCRATIA ● the exercise of deep state power [bathy (“deep”) + cratia (“control”)]
BAUEROCRACY ● a nation of farmers; a peasant state, with a peasant state of mind [bauer (“farmer”) + cracy]
BAWLITICS ● political debate reduced to a screaming match, all shouting and snarl [bawl + politics]
BAYERARCHY ● Big Pharma rules [Bayer ® + hierarchy]
BEAUTOCRACY ● the domain of the ”beautiful people”; a facialist state [beauty + cracy]
BEECONOMICS ● hive-minded economic enterprise, characterised by central command and control and collective labour discipline [bee + economics]
BEGGARNOMICS ● any economic strategy that empties the coffers and beggars the nation [beggar + economics]
BEGONOMICS ● plaintive cries for welfare handouts, corporate subsidies or personal “gibs” [beg + economics]
BELLIGERENTSIA ● the pro-war, pro-interventionist US intelligentsia, aka “B-52 liberals” [belligerent + intelligentsia]
BELLILOQUY ● speaking the language of war [bell (“war”) + loquy (“speech”)]
BELLOCRACY ● a state propagandised, primed and mobilised for military action [bell (“war”) + cracy]
BELLOPOLIST ● a warmonger [bell (“war”) + poly (“selling”)]
BENEDICTATORIAL ● given to spinning autocratic or authoritarian rule as a blessing [benediction + dictatorial]
BENEFICENTSIA ● highminded do-gooders, as distinct social circle or psychological type [beneficent + intelligentsia]
BENEVIOLENCE ● coercion justified as serving the common good, or some “noble cause” [benevolence + violence]
BENTHOCRACY ● a nation of “bottom-feeders” [bentho (“deep sea”) + cracy]
BERSERKERELLA ● a young social justice harridan-at-arms [berserker + ella]
BESTIARCHY ● rule by beasts or monsters—monstrously bestial humans in particular [bestiary + archy]
BETARCHY ● a government of second-raters; alternatively, a state power of the second rank [beta + archy]
BETTERNITY ● a naive belief in eternal moral progress, that “things can only get better” [better + eternity]
BIBLIOCOCTION ● cooking the books [biblio (“book”) + coction]
BI-OCRACY ● “left, right, left, right” bipolarity; a polity noted for predictable power swings [bi + cracy]
BIOMERETRICS ● the dishonest or otherwise unethical implementation of mass digital screening and surveillance technologies [biometrics + meretricious (“false”)]
BIOTECHNOCRACY ● the coming cyborg dominion—the fusion of the new man and the new managerialism [bios (“life”) + technocracy]
BIOTHANATOCRACY ● government of or over the living dead; also, a state with a death-wish [bios (“life”) + thanatos (“death”) + cracy]
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